Alexander Peterhansl wrote:
> [I am herewith re-posting this message on R-devel, as it seems to be the
> most appropriate mailing list for this issue.]
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>
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> Dear List,
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>
>>From what I understand, strptime() simply converts from one class
> representation to another; i.e., from character to POSIXct/POSIXlt.
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> One strange feature of this command running on Linux is that there are
> repeated calls to system time (as was revealed in a trace of system
> calls), which considerably affect performance. These system calls end
> up taking almost 75% of the execution time, and are completely
> unnecessary.
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> Code:
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> ptm <- proc.time()
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> for (i in 1:100000) strptime("2010-03-10 17:00:00", "%F %H:%M:%S")
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> (proc.time() -ptm)
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> Output on Windows Box (32-bit R 2.9.1 running on Intel X5472 @ 3.0 GHz):
>
> user system elapsed
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> 1.31 0.02 1.30
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>
>
> Output on Linux Box (64-bit R 2.10.1 running on Intel Xeon E5520 @
> 2.27GHz):
>
> user system elapsed
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> 3.33 8.941 12.273
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>
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Also, if I should turn to a different
> mailing list for this, please let me know.
It seems to be completely system-dependent. On Fedora 9, I see
user system elapsed
2.890 0.314 3.374
but on openSUSE 10.3 it is
user system elapsed
3.924 6.992 10.917
At any rate, I suspect that this is an issue with the operating system
and its C libraries, not with R as such.
--
Peter Dalgaard
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
Phone: (+45)38153501
Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com
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